Like aerosol cheese or wine in a box, Slice is, if we understand its ads, both enjoyable and bad for you. The Alliance Atlantis cable channel formerly known as Life Network relaunched in March – looking to lure women aged 18 to 49 with a schedule heavy on ‘guilty pleasures’ such as Beauty and the Geek and Brat Camp. And so we ask:

• Licensing firm m4e has acquired the German-language rights – covering new media, music, merchandising and publishing – for the Storm Hawks cartoon by Vancouver-based Nerd Corps. The 52 x 30 action-adventure is due this fall on the Cartoon Network and France 3.

I just finished reading your March 19 story ‘Is the Green Goliath too big for Toronto?’

Welcome to the latest installment in the never-ending struggle to sell English-Canadian films to English Canadians.

Holy Extreme Makeover! What the hank is going on at Global Television?

Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period Feb. 26-March 4, 2007.

Apple’s iTunes Canada seemed to be the frontrunner in the race for Hollywood’s digital content, but in what could be a sign of the times, Bell Mobility recently signed short-term contracts with Disney and Sony that will allow subscribers to download movies such as Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest to handsets for a limited viewing time. The Internet movie distribution pipeline is still wide open in Canada. So what, you say?

The cast and crew of Stargate: Continuum landed in an icy world in March – shooting the direct-to-DVD movie based on the sci-fi franchise at a U.S. Navy research station in the Arctic. The shoot, which also incorporated the USS Alexandria nuclear submarine, came together because of a Stargate fan at the remote Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station.

Lakeshore Entertainment has relocated its Elegy to B.C., and will begin shooting later this month at Lions Gate Studios with Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz under director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me). The picture – adapted from the Philip Roth novel The Dying Animal – was set for Montreal but pulled out because of the labor squabble between IATSE and AQTIS. Andre Lamal (The Covenant, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) produces.

A second run of Eureka (13 x 60) is underway at Vancouver Film Studios until midsummer, with Colin Ferguson back as the sheriff of a small town populated by brilliant scientists. The series runs on the Sci Fi Channel in the U.S. and on Space.

NBC has sent director Michael Dinner (Kidnapped, Grey’s Anatomy) to Vancouver to shoot its Bionic Woman pilot, a redo of the 1970s series starring British import Michelle Ryan (EastEnders).